RSS Project

I'm currently working on an RSS feed writer that can create a stand-alone RSS feed. The writer is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database and can be installed on a web server.

These are recommendations for the implementation of an RSS feed writer:

• Enclosure files should be hosted at the same location as the feed, so external parties cannot track the followers of the feed and cannot unnecessarily violate their privacy.
• When an item from another feed is shared and its XML is imported, the enclosure elements should be removed, because automatically showing these media files in a new context without first acquiring permission would be a copyright violation, unlike sharing the title, link, and description elements.
• When the description element of an item does not contain a short text of a few lines, but for instance an entire article, it should be shortened or cut to avoid a copyright violation.